December 2014
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Ackroyd, Peter - Charlie Chaplin: a brief life
- Ackroyd, Peter - Rebellion: the history of England, from James I to the Glorious Revolution
- Andersen, Christopher P. - The good son: JFK Jr. and the mother he loved
- Avineri, Shlomo - Herzl's vision: Theodor Herzl and the foundation of the Jewish state
- Bohemians, bootleggers, flappers, and swells: the best of early Vanity fair (introduction by Graydon Carter ; edited by Graydon Carter with David Friend)
- Booth, James - Philip Larkin: life, art and love
- Bragg, Rick. - Jerry Lee Lewis: his own story
- Bush, George W. - 41: a portrait of my father
- Carrère, Emmanuel - Limonov (translated from the French by John Lambert)
- Carroll, James - Christ actually: the Son of God for the secular age
- Cavett, Dick - Brief encounters: conversations, magic moments, and assorted hijinks (Dick Cavett ; foreword by Jimmy Fallon)
- Cleese, John - So, anyway...
- Finlay, Victoria - The brilliant history of color in art
- Harrison, Kathryn - Joan of Arc: a life transfigured
- Herken, Gregg - The Georgetown set: friends and rivals in Cold War Washington
- Huston, Anjelica - Watch me: a memoir
- Johnson, Marilyn - Lives in ruins: archaeologists and the seductive lure of human rubble
- Jurafsky, Dan - The language of food: a linguist reads the menu
- Kampfner, John - The rich: from slaves to super-yachts: a 2000-year history
- Kershaw, Robert J. - 24 hours at Waterloo: 18 June 1815
- Krist, Gary - Empire of sin: a story of sex, jazz, murder, and the battle for modern New Orleans
- Lamott, Anne - Small victories: spotting improbable moments of grace
- Larson, Edward J. - The return of George Washington: 1783-1789
- Leaming, Barbara - Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: the untold story
- Lepore, Jill - The secret history of Wonder Woman
- Light, Alison - Common people: the history of an English family
- Lynn, Andrea - Queens: a culinary passport: exploring ethnic cuisine in New York City's most diverse borough
- MacRae, Sigrid von Hoyningen-Huene - A world elsewhere: an American woman in wartime Germany
- Madrick, Jeffrey G. - Seven bad ideas: how mainstream economists have damaged America and the world
- Man between: Michael Henry Heim & a life in translation (edited by Esther Allen, Sean Cotter & Russell Scott Valentine)
- Mann, William J. - Tinseltown: murder, morphine, and madness at the dawn of Hollywood
- Miller, Stephen - Walking New York: reflections of American writers from Walt Whitman to Teju Cole
- Moorehead, Caroline - Village of secrets: defying the Nazis in Vichy France
- Never can say goodbye: writers on their unshakable love for New York (edited by Sari Botton)
- Nevius, James - Footprints in New York: tracing the lives of four centuries of New Yorkers
- Parker, Geoffrey - Imprudent king: a new life of Philip II
- Poehler, Amy - Yes please
- Quammen, David - Ebola: the natural and human history of a deadly virus
- Roberts, Andrew - Napoleon: a life
- Rose, Jacqueline - Women in dark times
- Sebestyen, Victor - 1946: the making of the modern world
- Smith, Michael - Shackleton: by endurance we conquer
- Solnit, Rebecca - The encyclopedia of trouble and spaciousness
- Stevenson, Bryan - Just mercy: a story of justice and redemption
- Todd, Chuck - The stranger: Barack Obama in the White House
- Von Furstenberg, Diane - The woman I wanted to be
- Wacker, Grant - America's pastor: Billy Graham and the shaping of a nation
- Wallace, David Foster - The David Foster Wallace reader (edited and with an introduction by Bonnie Nadell, Karen Green, Michael Pietsch)
- Watts, Marjorie-Ann - Slideshow: memories of a wartime childhood
- Wellman, Judith - Brooklyn's promised land: the free black community of Weeksville, New York
- Williamson, Joel. - Elvis Presley: a Southern life (Joel Williamson with Donald L. Shaw; foreword by Ted Ownby)
- Wilson, A. N. - Victoria: a life
- Zoglin, Richard - Hope: entertainer of the century
FICTION
- Chute, Carolyn - Treat us like dogs and we will become wolves
- Clarke, Brock - The happiest people in the world
- Coll, Susan - The stager
- Cussler, Clive - Havana storm
- Dueñas, María - The heart has its reasons (translated from the Spanish by Elie Kerrigan)
- Faber, Michel - The book of strange new things
- Ford, Richard - Let me be Frank with you
- Frank, Judith - All I love and know
- Gavron, Assaf - The hilltop (translated from the Hebrew by Steven Cohen)
- Giordano, Paolo - The human body (English translation by Anne Milano Appel)
- Hilderbrand, Elin - Winter street
- Hill, Susan - Printer's Devil Court
- Jin, Ha - A map of betrayal
- Johnson, Denis - The laughing monsters
- Karon, Jan - Somewhere safe with somebody good
- King, Stephen - Revival
- Kinsella, Sophie - Shopaholic to the stars
- Littlefield, Sophie - The missing place
- Millet, Lydia - Mermaids in paradise
- Modiano, Patrick - Suspended sentences: three novellas (translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti)
- Moyes, Jojo- The ship of brides
- Nicholls, David - Us
- Parker, T. Jefferson - Full measure
- Peterson, Holly - The idea of him
- Petrushevskaya, Ludmilla - There once lived a mother who loved her children, until they moved back in: three novellas about family (translated from the Russian by Anna Summers)
- Pittard, Hannah - Reunion
- Roorbach, Bill - The remedy for love
- Skármeta, Antonio - A distant father (translated from the Spanish by John Cullen)
- Skibsrud, Johanna - Quartet for the end of time
- Smith, Katy Simpson - The story of land and sea
- Smith, Wilbur A. - Desert god
- Tanweer, Bilal - The scatter here is too great
- Taylor, Patrick - An Irish doctor in peace and at war
- Wolitzer, Meg - Belzhar
MYSTERIES
- Alexander, Tasha - The counterfeit heiress: a Lady Emily mystery*
- Baldacci, David - The escape
- Berry, Steve - The Lincoln myth
- Brown, Rita Mae - Let sleeping dogs lie
- Butler, Robert Olen - The empire of night
- Clark, Mary Higgins - The Cinderella murder: an under suspicion novel
- Connelly, Michael - The burning room
- Connolly, John - The wolf in winter
- Cornwell, Patricia Daniels - Flesh and blood: a Scarpetta novel
- Disher, Garry - Bitter Wash Road
- Evanovich, Janet - The job: a Fox and O'Hare novel
- Finch, Charles - The laws of murder
- Fossum, Karin - The murder of Harriet Krohn (translated from the Norwegian by James Anderson)
- Fraser, Anthea - Justice postponed
- Grant, Andrew - Run
- Griffiths, Elly - The zig zag girl*
- Hallinan, Timothy - For the dead
- Hodgson, Antonia - The devil in the Marshalsea*
- Ison, Graham - Hardcastle's quartet*
- Jackson, Lisa. - Close to home
- James, Peter - A twist of the knife*
- James, Peter - Want you dead*
- Jardine, Quintin - Hour of darkness
- Johansen, Iris - The perfect witness
- Marwood, Alex - The killer next door
- McCall Smith, Alexander - The Handsome Man's De Luxe Café
- McKenzie, C. B. - Bad country
- McNab, Andy - For valour
- McPherson, Catriona - A deadly measure of brimstone
- Miley, Mary - Silent murders
- Neville, Stuart - The final silence
- O'Dell, Tawni - One of us
- Parsons, Tony - The murder man*
- Pérez-Reverte, Arturo - The siege (translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne)
- Perry, Anne - A New York Christmas
- Phillips, Louise - The doll's house
- Preston, Douglas J. - Blue labyrinth (with Lincoln Child)
- Ramsay, Caro. - The night hunter/ Caro Ramsay.
- Rollins, James, 1961- - The 6th extinction: a Sigma Force novel/ James Rollins.
- Rosenfelt, David - Hounded
- Schenkel, Andrea Maria - The murder farm (translated from the German by Anthea Bell)
- Shames, Terry - The last death of Jack Harbin: a Samuel Craddock mystery
- Tehran noir (edited and translated by Salar Abdoh)
- Varenne, Antonin - Bed of nails (translated from the French by Siân Reynolds)
- Waite, Urban - Sometimes the wolf
*indicates a British mystery
POETRY
- Berryman, John - The heart is strange: new selected poems
- Brecht, Bertolt - Love poems (translated by David Constantine and Tom Kuhn; foreword by Barbara Brecht-Schall)
- Kooser, Ted - Splitting an order
- Rankine, Claudia - Citizen: an American lyric
- Reece, Spencer - The road to Emmaus
SHORT STORIES
- Munro, Alice - Family furnishings: selected stories, 1995-2014 (foreword by Jane Smiley)
- Theroux, Paul - Mr. Bones: twenty stories
- Updike, John - Olinger stories: a selection
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Books to die for: the world's greatest mystery writers on the world's greatest mystery novels (John Connolly and Declan Burke, eds.) 809.3 B
- Read harder: five more years of great writing from Believer 824.05 R
- Balzac, Honoré de - The physiology of the employee (1841; Balzac on beaurocracy) 844 B
- Bullen, J. B. - Thomas Hardy: the world of his novels 823 H
- Kirsch, Adam - Rocket and lightship: essays on literature and ideas 824 K
- Usher, Shaun - Lists of note 808.8 U
- Zhong, Lihe - From the old country: stories and sketches of China and Taiwan 895.1 Z
- Zim, Rivkah - The consolations of writing: literary strategies of resistance from Boethius to Primo Levi 809 Z
POETRY
- Bachmann, Ingeborg - Darkness spoken: the collected poems 831 B
- Graham, Jorie - The taken-down god: selected poems 1997-2008 821 G
- McGann, Jerome J. - The Poet Edgar Allan Poe: alien angel 821.09 P
- Milosz, Czeslaw - Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz 891.85 M
RECENT TRANSLATIONS
- Caicedo Estela, Andrés - Liveforever (first published in 1977; translated from the Spanish) F C
- Colette - Shipwrecked on a traffic island: and other previously untranslated gems (fiction, essays, etc.) 848 C
- Moravia, Alberto - Agostino (translated from the Italian; New York Review Books) F M
- Perutz, Leo - Saint Peter's snow & Swedish Cavalier (translated from the German) F P
- Theotokes, Konstantinos - Slaves in their chains (translated from the Greek; first published 1922) F T
- Tolstoy, Leo - Anna Karenina (new translation by Rosamund Bartlett) F T
- Zola, Émile - Money (first unabriged translation in 100 years) F Z
ART
- Benson, Timothy O. - Expressionism in Germany and France: from van Gogh to Kandinsky 759 E
- Evans, Mark - John Constable: the making of a master 759.2 E
- Kenny, Ruth - British folk art 745 K
- Kirby, Jo - Techniques of painting: a closer look 751 K
- Morris, Jan - Ciao, Carpaccio!: an infatuation 759.5 C
- Obrist, Hans Ulrich - Ways of curating 708 O
- Thornton, Sarah - 33 artists in 3 acts 706.9 T
PHOTOGRAPHY
- Kuhl, Nancy, - Extravagant crowd: Carl van Vechten's portraits of women 770 V
- Laffont, Jean-Pierre - Photographer's paradise: turbulent America 1960 -1990 770 L OVERSIZE
- Leiter, Saul - Saul Leiter: Retrospektive 779 L
- Tomatsu, Shomei - Chewing gum and chocolate (post WWII American occupation of Japan) 770 T
BIOGRAPHY
- Abramsky, Sasha - The house of twenty thousand books 92 A1606 A
- Bromwich, David - The intellectual life of Edmund Burke: from the sublime and beautiful to American independence 92 B9593 B
- Downey, Kirstin - Isabella: the warrior queen 92 I743 D
- Kotkin, Stephen - Stalin (1st of 3 volumes) 92 S7826 K
- La Grange, Zelda - Good morning, Mr. Mandela 92 L179 L
- Merrifield, Andy - Guy Debord 92 D2877 M
- Stratmann, Linda - The Marquess of Queensberry: Wilde's nemesis 92 Q357 S
- Strohm, Paul - Chaucer's tale: 1386 and the road to Canterbury 92 C496 S
HISTORY
- Barker, Juliet R. V. - 1381: the year of the Peasants' Revolt 942.03 B
- Bernstein, Richard - China 1945: Mao's revolution and America's fateful choice 951 B
- Calloway, Colin G. - The victory with no name: the Native American defeat of the first American army 977 C
- Gibson, Carrie - Empire's crossroads: a history of the Caribbean from Columbus to the present day 972.9 G
- Jones, Colin - The smile revolution in eighteenth century Paris 944 J
- Lichtblau, Eric - The Nazis next door: how America became a safe haven for Hitler's men 327.12 L
- Nelson, Eric - The royalist revolution: monarchy and the American founding 320.9 N
- Pye, Michael - The edge of the world: how the North Sea made us who we are 940.1 P
- Weinberg, Robert - Blood libel in late imperial Russia: the ritual murder trial of Mendel Beilis 343.1 W
ANTIQUITY
- Demosthenes - Selected speeches (translated by Robin Waterfield) 885.6 D
- Norwich, John Julius - Cities that shaped the ancient world 930.1 C
- Pelling, C. B. R. - Twelve voices from Greece and Rome: Ancient ideas for modern times 880 P
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus - Hardship and happiness 878.5 S
CRITICISM
- Keucheyan, Razmig - Left hemisphere: mapping critical theory today 320.1 K
- Ley, James - The critic in the modern world: public criticism from Samuel Johnson to James Wood 801 L
- Swatridge, Colin - The Oxford guide to effective argument and critical thinking 808.5 S
ECONOMICS
- Mazzucato, Mariana - The entrepreneurial state: debunking public vs. private sector myths 338 M
- What have we learned?: macroeconomic policy after the crisis 339 W
CITIES
- Chakrabarti, Vishaan - A country of cities: a manifesto for an urban America 307.76 C
- Dickson, David - Dublin: the making of a capital city 941.5 D
- MacLean, Rory - Berlin: portrait of a city through the centuries 943.1 M
RELIGION
- Caudill, Edward.- Intelligently designed: how creationists built the campaign against evolution 215 C
- Davis, Richard H. - The Bhagavad Gita: a biography 294.5 D
- Wolfe, Alan - At home in exile: why diaspora is good for the Jews 909.4 W
WAR
- Gill, Anton - The journey back from hell: an oral history: conversations with concentration camp survivors 940.5472 G
- Green, David - The Hundred Years War: a people's history 944.02 G
- Hynes, Samuel - The unsubstantial air: American fliers in the First World War 940.44 H
- Motadel, David - Islam and Nazi Germany's war 940.53 M
- Nagl, John A. - Knife fights: a memoir of modern war in theory and practice 355 N
SCIENCE
- Benson, Michael - Cosmigraphics: picturing space through time 523.1 B OVERSIZE
- Duzdevich, Daniel - Darwin's On the origin of species: a modern rendition 575 D
- Long, Pamela O. - Artisanpractitioners and the rise of the new sciences, 1400-1600 509 L
NEW YORK
- Black Harlem and the Jewish Lower East Side: narratives out of time (Catherine Rottenberg, ed.) 820.9 B
- McNeur, Catherine - Taming Manhattan: environmental battles in the antebellum city 307.76 M
- Quilter, Jenni - The New York School painters and poets: neon in daylight 709.7471 Q
- Ward, Vicky - The liar's ball: the extraordinary saga of how one building broke the world's toughest tycoons 333 W
AUDIO
- Greene, Graham - The comedians Audio-CD G
- Hammett, Dashiell - Red harvest Audio-CD H
- Tartt, Donna - The goldfinch Lobby Audio-CD T
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